My guess is the FBI somehow got a camera down inside. They probably drilled down through the earth next to the bunker real slow so as to not make noise and then found a seam in the buried shipping container to feed the camera into. I've also heard in other stories that the FBI build a duplicate bunker on their own so that they could better plan entry strategies. Once they had a camera in place and had studied the layout, and once they felt negotiations were falling apart, they just watched until both the guy and the kid were in the optimum positions for an entry, and then they went for it.

positronica:My guess is the FBI somehow got a camera down inside. They probably drilled down through the earth next to the bunker real slow so as to not make noise and then found a seam in the buried shipping container to feed the camera into. I've also heard in other stories that the FBI build a duplicate bunker on their own so that they could better plan entry strategies. Once they had a camera in place and had studied the layout, and once they felt negotiations were falling apart, they just watched until both the guy and the kid were in the optimum positions for an entry, and then they went for it.

I'm wondering if said optimum position would be he was near the entrance and they blew the door in on him to stun, charged in and double-tap.

MindStalker:I just wish they had used a drone. There would be people out there that celebrated that use in this situation, while decrying its use in other countries in similar situations. The cognitive dissidence would be been spectacular.

"And as the standoff stretched into days, drones flew large, lazy circles high above the scene at night. "Link to a story that includes lots of details about how the FBI handled things.

"Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from a windowless DC-9 that had landed just miles from the suspect's isolated compound.Helmeted officers decked out in tan fatigues, camouflage and body armor, many carrying long guns, rumbled in rented cargo trucks to and from the property in southeastern Alabama where 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes and his young captive were hunkered down in a roughly 6-by-8-foot hand-dug bunker with only one small hatch for an entryway. "

I knew this right wing asspipe was never going to leave that "bunker" alive. From what I hear, his ventilated carcass is still lying where it dropped while the FBI is busy sweeping the area for booby-traps. Poor flies.

FarkingReading:Here's a new detail I didn't know before: The closest thing he had to a friend was the bus driver that he killed. The bus driver delivered a "gift of eggs and jam to Dykes' trailer several days before the incident, as a thank you for Dykes' work shoveling a narrow road so that Poland could make a three-point turn on his bus route."

Also, the two guys argued for quite a while on the bus over whether or not Dykes could take the boy, and then Dykes killed him. I didn't realize it was a drawn-out argument.

generallyso:MindStalker: I just wish they had used a drone. There would be people out there that celebrated that use in this situation, while decrying its use in other countries in similar situations. The cognitive dissidence would be been spectacular.

You wish they had fired a missile into a hostage situation? Somehow it doesn't surprise me you don't know the word you wanted is 'dissonance.'

TV's Vinnie:Looks like the "republican base" was reduced by 1 that day. Good!

I knew this right wing asspipe was never going to leave that "bunker" alive. From what I hear, his ventilated carcass is still lying where it dropped while the FBI is busy sweeping the area for booby-traps. Poor flies.

stevetherobot:MindStalker: I just wish they had used a drone. There would be people out there that celebrated that use in this situation, while decrying its use in other countries in similar situations. The cognitive dissidence would be been spectacular.

"And as the standoff stretched into days, drones flew large, lazy circles high above the scene at night. "Link to a story that includes lots of details about how the FBI handled things.

"Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from a windowless DC-9 that had landed just miles from the suspect's isolated compound.Helmeted officers decked out in tan fatigues, camouflage and body armor, many carrying long guns, rumbled in rented cargo trucks to and from the property in southeastern Alabama where 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes and his young captive were hunkered down in a roughly 6-by-8-foot hand-dug bunker with only one small hatch for an entryway. "

OregonVet:TV's Vinnie: Looks like the "republican base" was reduced by 1 that day. Good!

I knew this right wing asspipe was never going to leave that "bunker" alive. From what I hear, his ventilated carcass is still lying where it dropped while the FBI is busy sweeping the area for booby-traps. Poor flies.

OregonVet:TV's Vinnie: Looks like the "republican base" was reduced by 1 that day. Good!

I knew this right wing asspipe was never going to leave that "bunker" alive. From what I hear, his ventilated carcass is still lying where it dropped while the FBI is busy sweeping the area for booby-traps. Poor flies.

He rigged the bunker with explosives, tried to reinforce it against any raid, and when SWAT agents stormed the shelter Monday to rescue the boy, Jimmy Lee Dykes engaged in a firefight that left the captor dead, according to the FBI.

Wow, this kind of reporting seems to be catching. Here is a story explaining the reason that power stopped getting relayed to the Super Bowl. It turns out that what happened is that the relay device stopped working.